Friday, May 27, 2011

Mid-Week Box Office: The Hangover Part II, Kung Fu Panda 2

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/  reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post some of the movies from last week and  THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed!  This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!

Mid-Week Box Office: The Hangover Part II, Kung Fu Panda 2


By Debbie Schlussel



Per usual, the kids movie is the better one by far, but both are sequels and neither shines. Not even close.







* “The Hangover Part II“: I hated the original “The Hangover” (read my review), which I thought was disgusting, vulgar, vile, juvenile, and not all that funny . . . unless you’re part of the vast segment of America that is the great unwashed dummies–frat boys, sorority sisters, and all the morons who are obsessed with the Kardashians. But this second installment–which is more of the same, only far worse–makes the first one look like Shakespearian masterpiece stuff. BTW, Bill Clinton was supposed to have a cameo in this flick. Maybe he changed his mind, ‘cuz I didn’t see him anywhere onscreen. Smart move.



Yes, I laughed a few times–very few–but I’m embarrassed to say so. If you love nauseating movies complete with naked transsexuals who have female breasts and penises right in your face, stories about a groom-to-be having anal sex with them, cut-off fingers, jokes about Asian women being flat-chested, and monkeys who smoke cigarettes, well this movie is for you, and please leave America. Sadly, this movie already did $10 million in business at midnight screenings, last night, and will probably make hundreds of millions. As I always note, there’s no accounting for good taste in America. ‘Cuz there’s very little of it. This movie was garbage, and garbage sells.



Oh, and the writers of this crap made sure it’s pointed out that the character, Stu the dentist, is a Jew–yup, the guy who has sex with the male transsexual and gets a Mike Tyson tattoo on his face. Thanks, Ed Helms (who plays Stu), for maligning my people. And memo to Ed: come up with a new act. Your “nerdy, innocent guy gets corrupted” routine gets old . . . especially after I’ve seen you play it in every movie and TV show in which you star. On the other hand, we Jews are always the ones who get screwed, including by this piece of dung movie.



Like I said, shots of cut-off fingers, Mike Tyson tattoos tattooed on main characters’ faces, a monkey who smokes, a shaved head, licking a monkey’s penis and saying it tastes like mushrooms, and a monk in a wheel chair–haha funny. . . if you’re a moron And American ain’t got no shortage of movie-going morons, as last night showed. No surprise.



The story: the original scumbags–Justin Bartha, Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, and Ed Helms–and their four-letter filled comments are back. They go to Thailand, where Stu is set to marry the Thai daughter of a wealthy, classy man, who is, of course, a bad guy for having class, dignity, and wanting his kids to do well in school and play classical music. The nerve of him! Gee, and we wonder why Asians are beating us in so many academic and business arenas. Yeah, let’s keep attacking their focus on achievement in our movies, while they laugh all the way to the bank and at us in real life.



The night before the wedding, they go to the beach for a beer and wake up the next morning in Bangkok with a missing finger, their drugged-out Chinese drug dealer friend from the first movie (Ken Jeong, who gave up his real-life career as a doctor to act in crap like this and defame his own Asian people), Galifianakis’ head shaved, and Ed Helms’ face tattooed, and Teddy–the groom’s brother-in-law-to-be–is missing, except for his dismembered finger. The rest of the movie is spent searching for Teddy, finding out what happened the night before, and trying to get to the wedding.



Who cares? I sure didn’t. Garbage isn’t interesting. Neither is excrement. They just smell. And this movie stunk. And it’s basically a rehash of the first one, with the exact same “jokes” plus more crap. Refried absolute crap . . . the kind that makes great recruitment material and propaganda against America and the West, beyond what the ghost of Osama Bin Laden could ever hope for.



Western values are to be celebrated. Western decadence is to be restrained. So sad, that Hollywood doesn’t know the difference. Nor does America’s movie-going public.



FOUR MARXES PLUS AN OBAMA PLUS A BIN LADEN



* “Kung Fu Panda 2“: While this wasn’t the greatest kids movie ever and it was kinda dull at times, it was also cute at times and is fine for your kids. All the originals from the first incarnation of this animated movie are back, including the voice of Palestina Jolie. Jack Black’s Po unites with them to use his kung fu against evil wolves and, then, a bigger villain, in the form of an evil peacock who wants to destroy kung fu forever. Plus Po finally discovers where he came from and what happened to his parents.



As I noted, it’s perfectly okay for kids and has some touching, cute, cuddly moments among other dull ones. It is wholesome, unlike most of the crap served up at the movies, these days. Not sure why this needed to be 3-D, but it was. Mildly entertaining for adults, though they are not the target audience, obviously.



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Memorial Day for Servants of God

An interesting article from www.ucg.org about Memorial Day. This follows this previous post about it.  For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

Memorial Day for Servants of God


A commentary by Jerold Aust



God remembers His faithful and fallen servants. In Hebrews 11 we find a list of some of the true heroes of faith.



A grieving mother expresses her pain for the loss of her son who died in Iraq in July 2007. From usatoday.com, here are her words:



"It has been three months today that you have been laid to rest. The pain still persists and has not eased one bit ... I have cried and cried until my eyes have dried.



"But because of our loving God and the Grace he provides us, I am able to get out of bed and care for your brothers. I am able, by his Grace, to lift my head high and be PROUD of my son, Dane, for he IS a HERO in the minds and hearts of so many.



"Love, Mom"



Memorial Day in America

America has just observed another Memorial Day to commemorate its fallen servicemen. This custom began following the Civil War when families in local communities gathered to honor those who had lost their lives in that struggle.



Congressman John A. Logan, a retired general, was exceptionally instrumental in officially instituting Memorial Day on May 5, 1868 as a time for the entire nation to honor its fallen soldiers.



A Book of Remembrance

God also remembers His faithful and fallen servants. In Hebrews 11 we find a list of some of the true heroes of faith. They include some of His outstanding servants from the time of Abel to Enoch and from Noah to the time of Abraham and Sarah. Tribute to Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses is also given (verses 4-11, 20-26).



Unable to list every biblical hero, the author of Hebrews comments: "And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets ..." (verse 32).



God also memorializes all of His faithful servants with a special book of remembrance. "Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name" (Malachi:3:16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.).



The hope of the dead

Yes, God never forgets His faithful servants (Luke:12:4-7[4]And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.[5]But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.[6]Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?[7]But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.). He never forsakes them (1 Samuel:12:22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.). He knows those who are His (2 Timothy:2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.). He views them as the apple of His eye (Zechariah:2:8For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.).



He also shows that the present world is not worthy of the ultimate sacrifice made by so many of His faithful servants (Hebrews:11:38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.). Were it not for their faithfulness we are told that no flesh would saved alive at the end of the great tribulation (Matthew:24:22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.).



Yet Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear shall live ... Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment" (John:5:25-29[25]Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.[26]For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;[27]And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.[28]Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,[29]And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation., New American Standard Bible).



Spiritual warfare

All Christians have battles to fight. The apostle Paul explains the purpose of that spiritual warfare.



"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Corinthians:10:3-5[3]For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:[4](For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)[5]Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;, New Revised Standard Version).



Dedicated Christians are told: "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but ... against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians:6:11-12[11]Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.[12]For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.).



Where are the trumpets, the bands, the readings, the speeches and the fanfare for those who gave their lives in the service of God? Even though at the present time there may be no special ceremonies to honor them they will never be forgotten by God.



A mother's grief turned to joy

This commentary began with a mother's sorrow for her fallen son. The Scriptures assure us that she and her son will one day be reunited; and their reunion will be joyous.

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Summer Reading: While America Sleeps - Book Review

A very interesting book which describes the dangers from an unchecked reponse to immigration from what the author calls Reconquistadores and Jihadists along with the dumbing down of America's culture so that there will be no response to all of this.

You can get this from your library's Interlibrary loan department here http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191079443&referer=brief_results

and Amazon here http://www.amazon.com/While-America-Sleeps-Immigration-Indoctrination/dp/0595435246/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239394673&sr=1-1

While America Sleeps


The authors table of contents says it all, and I have never seen a better more organized laydown of content than this one, so good that I am spelling it out here because for many, the table of contents alone is sufficient (but I urge buying the book, it is very readable and thought-provoking).






An Economy in Hock
La Reconquista (the Reconquering, Mexico has gotten all the way back to the Guadalupe-Hidalgo line)
Absolishing Self-Defense
Subordinating Ourselves
Subordinating Our Culture
Subordinating Our Country
An Ideology of Submission
Enforcing the Ideology
Disabling Americans
Spreading the Ideology
Can America Be Saved?
Reclaiming the Individual
Reclaiming the Economy
Reclaiming the Government
If All Else Fails







This is an enormously important book that speaks to the heart and mind of every person of any race or faith who believes in America the Beautiful, in dignity, justice, and liberty for all. That's not what we stand for today, and that is a travesty of epic proportions.







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The emphasis in this book is on HOW:

How militant Islamists get into the U. S., how they spread to cities and towns throughout the U.S., how they persuade us they are moderates, how they operate inside the U. S., how they manipulate our laws to protect their activities, how they exploit "political correctness" to escape detection.

Also, how the illegal immigration industry operates, how illegals are bussed to cities and towns throughout the U. S., how they are financed, how they have teams of free lawyers standing by to manipulate the laws of the U. S. to avoid deportation.

The INDOCTRINATION chapters include a detailed analysis of "political correctness" (which this book calls "Dhimmism" but might more properly be called "postliberalism"). We all use the term "political correctness" and think we know what it means, but most people have only a vague idea what it is, and we need to know. This book tells you in detail what it is and what it is not, how and why it developed, how it is enforced, and how it is spread.

The book tells you how colleges, schools, news media, law schools, courts and Hollywood came to be dominated by "political correctness", how more and more people are being indoctrinated into this new ideology, and how the minds of people so indoctrinated actually work, including why it is impossible to reason with them.

Your own children and grandchildren are being indoctrinated every day, not only in school, but from TV, pop/rock/rap music, and other sources.

Most urgently, the book tells you how "political correctness" protects the militant Islamists and illegal immigrants and guarantees that nothing will be done to stop them.

If you think somebody or other is taking care of these problems or will take care of them, then you need to read this book to find out you're living in a dream. If you think the government is so strong that you don't need to worry, then you're part of the sleeping America. People are already being hurt in many ways, but the worst is yet to come. The situation is not hopeless--not yet, but it will be in the near future if most people continue to be misinformed. Give a copy to everyone you love.

U.S. Supreme Court Upheld State E-Verify Legislation -- Tell Legislators To Pass Mandatory E-Verify

An urgent post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about E-Verify in the Texas state legislature. This follows this post about the Supreme Court E-verify ruling. This follows this post  about Carlos Santana's hate speech against unemployed Americans.  This follows this post about congressional redistricting and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE

U.S. Supreme Court Upheld State E-Verify Legislation -- Tell Legislators To Pass Mandatory E-Verify





You can find this phone call request by proceeding to

http://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID= 13174   





U.S. Supreme Court Upheld State E-Verify Legislation – Tell Legislators To Pass Mandatory E-Verify Bill







Tell State Sen. to Stop Blocking HB 12




By a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court upheld Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters. The court said that federal immigration law gives states the authority to impose sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers.





Tell Texas legislators to pass a bill!





Please call and email House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (leader of the Texas Senate) with the message:









“The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld the right of states to pass mandatory E-Verify laws. Texans want a mandatory E-Verify law for all employers NOW! Adopt mandatory E-Verify and anti-sanctuary city legislation as part of one of the three remaining immigration bills – HB 12, HB 2734 or SB 9.”













Speaker Joe Straus - (512) 463-1000 Email form





Lt. Governor David Dewhurst - (512) 463-0001 Email form





Please call and email your Rep. and Senator with the message:









“The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld the right of states to pass mandatory E-Verify laws. I am a constituent who wants a mandatory E-Verify law for all employers NOW! Adopt mandatory E-Verify and anti-sanctuary city legislation as part of one of the three remaining immigration bills – HB 12, HB 2734 or SB 9.”









You can look up contact information for your legislator under these links for the Senate and House. If you do not know your legislators’ names, use the Senate locator and House locator.





Tell State Senator to Stop Blocking Anti-Sanctuary Bill





The Houston Chronicle reports that Sen. Kirk Watson appears to be blocking consideration of HB 12 – the anti-sanctuary bill – on the Senate floor. Here is a portion of the article:









“While the Senate rules allow for a simple majority to debate House bills on Wednesday, House Bill 12 would require a vote of two-thirds of the Senate if it is brought up out of order on the list of bills on the Senate's agenda.





Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, a stalwart opponent of the sanctuary city bill, has a bill ahead of House Bill 12 on the calendar. Until Watson agrees to debate his bill, House Bill 12 would require a vote of two-thirds of the Senate to take it out of order.





Watson declined to comment on his intentions, but it appeared unlikely he would pass his bill and allow the sanctuary city debate to go forward. Lawmakers declined to predict whether an effort would be made to attach the proposal to another bill.”









All Texas NumbersUSA members are encouraged to call and email Sen. Watson with the message:
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist14/dist14.htm#form








“I read that you are using Senate rules to delay consideration of HB 12. Shame on you. Stop blocking HB 12.





Law enforcement officers, citizens, and other residents (both legal and illegal) have been killed or suffered severe injury because sanctuary policies allow criminal illegal aliens to live in our communities without fear. This "magnet" must end this session."









(512) 463-0114; Use email form on this page.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Memorial Day: What Have We Learned?

An interesting article from www.ucg.org about Memorial Day. This follows this post about Jerusalem.  For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

What Have We Learned?


A commentary by Darris McNeely


This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings by Allied troops. Leaders from the United States, France and Britain, and, for the first time, Germany, will gather to commemorate one of the most important events of the 20th century.



I have a ritual every year on Memorial Day. I pop into my VCR an animated Peanuts special entitled, "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown"? It's a program that takes the beloved Peanuts characters through a tour of famous European battlegrounds. Their tour includes a visit to Flanders Field from World War I where, according to the poem, "the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row."



The words of this haunting poem continue, "We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders fields."



Sadly, mankind did not learn the lesson from this "War to End All Wars." Only 21 years later, the world plunged into another global war. The Peanuts characters move on to the scene of another great battle of that conflict—Normandy, where allied troops stormed the French beaches to begin the liberation of Europe from Nazi control.



As the camera looks over the calm white beaches and rocky cliffs, scenes from the invasion are superimposed. The characters visit the American cemetery where thousands of young soldiers are buried. This plot of land was permanently deeded to America by the French government. As the characters walk among the graves, the words of Dwight Eisenhower, who commanded the allied forces that June morning, serve as a fitting testimony to the action.



Eisenhower had returned to Normandy 20 years after the invasion and recorded a documentary for American television. He said: "Many thousands of men came here to storm these beaches for one purpose only. Not to gain anything. Not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest. But just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government. Many thousands of men have died for ideals such as these. In the 20th century, for the second time, America, along with the rest of the free world, had to come across the ocean to defend those same values.



"But these young boys . . . over whose graves we have been treading . . . contemplating their sacrifices . . . They never knew the great experiences of going through life. I devoutly hope that we never again have to see scenes as these. I pray, think, hope that humanity will have learned more than we learned up to that time. We must find some way to work for peace and . . . gain an eternal peace."



This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings by Allied troops. Leaders from the United States, France and Britain, and, for the first time, Germany, will gather to commemorate one of the most important events of the 20th century. It is likely to be the last big commemoration of this event. Thousands of World War II veterans, called by some "the greatest generation," die each week. In a few short years their voices will be silenced.



My father landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach as a combat engineer. He survived while many of his buddies died on the beach. One of his friends, from his hometown, was shot in the legs and carried onto the beach by my father. Years later I would hear him say that he did not wish to see any young man have to go through the experience of war as he did. For this veteran, war was a life-altering experience. It was one he would have rather not gone through.



What have we learned? Not enough to bring peace among nations. Wars and conflicts continue to create new graves with the same echoes of unrealized hope.



We continue to look and wait with hope for the time when Jesus Christ will restore a government of peace upon the earth as described by the prophet Isaiah. It is his thoughts found in Isaiah:2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. that offer us a different future. Those words state, ". . . Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."



To better understand the hopeful future Jesus Christ and the Bible reveal, request or download your free copy of The Gospel of the Kingdom.

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Reading for Memorial Day: Vince Flynn on the Killing of Bin Laden

A very interesting book to read on Memorial Day reviewed by http://www.hughhewitt.com/. This follows this book which describes the dangers from an unchecked reponse to immigration from what the author calls Reconquistadores and Jihadists.


Vince Flynn on the Killing of Bin Laden

http://www.hughhewitt.com/blog/g/875bea88-51c7-476f-9c99-91c5926ece11


Vince Flynn's thrillers featuring counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp has been on the best-seller lists from the beginning of the war. The operation against bin Laden is in fact foreshadowed in the novel Memorial Day.







Flynn joins me in the first hour today to discuss his reaction to the killing of bin Laden and what he has heard from his enormous number of friends in the community of special operations warriors and intelligence specialists.

HH: It’s been almost two weeks since bin Laden met his end at the hand of a Navy SEAL team and other special operators. And from almost the moment that that report was received by me, I began to think about who would I like to talk with about that killing of bin Laden. Of course, the first nominee would be W., President George W. Bush, and I get to do that tomorrow night in front of a live audience in Dallas. And then the second person was Vince Flynn, America’s preeminent master of the thriller, the creator of Mitch Rapp, his number one, bestselling book, American Assassin, remains very high at the top of the charts. It’s the first of the Mitch Rapp tales. And thanks to his generosity of time, Vince Flynn joins us now. Hello, Vince.




VF: Hugh, great to be on the show, buddy. And I’ll take number two to W (laughing).



HH: (laughing) I am looking forward to tomorrow. I think he’ll be cagier than I hope you’ll be with me. I think you’re going to be pretty straightforward on this thing.



VF: I’ll be very straightforward. Yeah, I saw him at a dinner party in Minneapolis last September, and he has really loosened up. But he will not…I mean, he’s loosened up in the sense of how relaxed he is. But if somebody asked him a question that he doesn’t want to answer, he just says nope.



HH: Yeah, I’ve run into that before.



VF: And now he’s not president, he’s really good at it. He just says nope, not going to do it.



HH: And so that might, I might get a couple of those tomorrow night. But we’ll set the table, at least, right now. Perhaps W. is listening. www.vinceflynn.com, America, I’m going to refer to his website a couple of times. And I want to start there, Vince. Before we talk about bin Laden, you had posted news at http://www.vinceflynn.com/  that you’ve had a health challenge yourself. Update the audience on how you’re doing.



VF: Well, I feel good. And weird enough, I was talking to Duane before we went on the air, I was on tour last fall, and I hadn’t been feeling good, and I was at dinner with you and Duane and some friends out on the West Coast, and it was really the low point. And up until then, I thought I had prostatitis, and I was being treated by doctors. But something was wrong that night. I mean, I was in pain that I hadn’t been in, you know, ever. And went and spoke at the Reagan Library that next night, and then got on a plane and went back to Minneapolis, and went in and within days was informed that I had advanced metastatic prostate cancer, which was like getting hit with a sledgehammer. For the first 36 hours, we didn’t know what, my wife and I basically huddled in our bedroom like we had the flu, because we couldn’t tell the kids anything, because there wasn’t any good news. I mean, I didn’t know if I was going to make it to Christmas.



HH: Right.



VF: And it’s amazing how quickly things can turn around. We ended up, I’m fortunate to live only an hour and fifteen minutes from the Mayo Clinic. And I ended up down there like five days later in front of a genius named Eugene Kwon, who looked at me and said, you know, you might not feel like it, but you’re a blessed guy. Two years ago, we couldn’t have done anything for you other than try to placate this. But now, we can kill it. And worst case scenario, I’ve got five to ten years, and I plan on doing a lot better than that. So I feel good. I’m on hormone therapy, which I am going to have to write a book about at some point. I’m basically a 45 year old man going through menopause.



HH: (laughing) I’d read that book. That would be interesting.



VF: (laughing) I now understand what women go through. The side effects are hot flashes and some other things, irritability.



HH: I’m so impressed that you’ll be public with it, though. A lot of men don’t do it. I’m grateful that you do, so that people know this is a disease that can be treated, cured, and recovered from.



VF: Well, and you know what? I’m old school Catholic, and I’m a big believer in prayer. And I’m not a Bible thumping kind of guy, but I absolutely believe that the more people who are out there praying for me, the better off I’m going to be and my family’s going to be. And I don’t see what good it does to hide from a problem like this. I don’t enjoy going out in public and having to talk about cancer. I don’t enjoy going out in public with people wanting to tell me their worst cancer story as if somehow that’s the kind of mind frame I want to put myself in. But it doesn’t, it’s not how I operate. It’s never good…I do a fair amount of talking to high school kids, by the way, and I always tell them, never run from your problems, because the longer you do, the worse it gets. It’s better to meet this stuff head on, and get focused, and wrap your mind around it. And you know, Hugh, the hardest thing for me the first six to eight weeks were these hormones. I have a pretty strong mental edge. You know, I’m kind of a type A guy.



HH: Yup.



VF: And these hormones had me coming and going in ways I couldn’t control my emotions. And one afternoon, I’ll never forget, I sat in my office, and I’m not a big crier. You know, my father raised all four of my brothers and I, you know, my dad told us when we lost a playoff game once when I was about 12 years old, and my dad, one of my other brothers started crying. And my dad pulled us out of the huddle and he said if I ever see you guys cry on a basketball court again, you’re done.



HH: There is no crying in baseball or basketball, yeah.



VF: Yeah, there’s things in life that are worth crying about, and this isn’t one of them. Well, I sat in my office and cried for an hour and a half. And I allowed myself to do something that I have not since allowed myself to do, which is sit there and go down these dark corridors where I imagine my own funeral, and my kids…and you can’t do that. It’s just, there is no…all it does is, I think it weakens you immune system, and it puts you in such a vulnerable place that it does no good for you or your family. So I got through that stage. The hormones have been, other than the hot flashes and some side effects, they’re fine. I mean, I’ve got a good friend, Dr. Mike Nanny right now, who’s got a brain tumor. So I like to say put things in perspective. I get out of bed every day, I thank God I’m alive. I thank God that I don’t have to watch my wife go through this or my kids. And when I hear people complain about things that aren’t problems, I sometimes will tell them you should go down to Children’s Hospital for a day, and see what problems are really like.



HH: That is a great encouragement to people, Vince Flynn. I’ve got to ask you, what do you think of the American medical system since it’s so much in the headlines, now that you’ve been in its grip for a year?



VF: Well, you know, I’m in an interesting position, because the Mayo Clinic is not, it’s not a public hospital.



HH: Right.



VF: It’s a private clinic, and it’s funded chiefly by donations by extremely wealthy people who are constantly billed and billing. I couldn’t be more impressed with my doctor, Bill Utz, here in Edina, who’s also in private practice, and Eugene Kwon in the Mayo Clinic. I mean, I’m in…Hugh, I’m a research guy. You know that. That’s why I come on your show.



HH: Yup.



VF: So when this hit, you know, I reached out. And Roger Ailes put me in touch with Michael Milken, and I got on the phone with Milken and his top research guy, a guy named Dr. Howard Sewell, and I said to him here’s where I am, I’m down at the Mayo Clinic, and they breathed a sigh of relief, and they said you know what? There’s only the top two hospitals in America for what you have, are Sloan-Kettering in New York, and the Mayo Clinic.



HH: Wow.



VF: And Eugene Kwon is a genius, and you need, that’s exactly where you need to be. So that’s a great burden that I don’t have to sit there and worry am I with the right guy. And these, both Utz and Kwon have been amazing, and I have not had that experience of problems. I mean, other than (laughing) you really start to get sick of being probed and scanned all that other stuff…



HH: Oh, I’ll bet.



VF: You just kind of…it can be depressing, and then…because you think this is where people go to die at hospitals. Then you realize no, a lot of people go to hospitals to get cured. So you kind of got to flip it around. And I’ve been lucky so far.



HH: Our friend, Hitchens, told me before he became incapable of talking that being sick is hard work. And you’re a worker. You’re a type A guy. What did…did you give up writing? Are you back at it now?



VF: No, you know, I’m back at it. I’m working on the Haig project with Brian Haig, I’ve got some exciting stuff going on out in Hollywood. It looks like we’re going to shelve Consent To Kill, which we’ve been working on for the last three and a half years. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Amy Baer, who runs CBS Films, they loved American Assassin, which is the prequel.



HH: Sure.



VF: You know, that’s the, this is the original story of Mitch Rapp. They loved it so much, they said let’s shelve Consent To Kill, let’s do American Assassin. And they just got Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskowitz to agree to write and direct. And I was just out in L.A., and I spent a couple of days with these guys, and they are smart. They get geopolitics, they get that there’s good guys and bad guys out there. And Zwick did The Last Samurai, which I thought was just a phenomenal movie, as well as…



HH: Yup.



VF: …Blood Diamond and a bunch of other stuff. I mean, really talented guys. So we haven’t inked the deal yet, but we’re really close. And so I’m working on that, I’m trying to work on the next Rapp novel. And I’m trying to (laughing), you know, beat this little cancer thing.



HH: So you did not slow down. We’re not going to slow down, either, America. I’m coming right back with Vince Flynn. We’re going to talk about bin Laden. And by the way, Memorial Day, one of Vince’s novels, is one of the most eerie foreshadowings that you would want to have ever read. You get a hundred pages of it free, by the way, download over at http://www.vinceflynn.com/  just for joining up at Facebook. You’ll know what I mean.



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HH: All right, Vince, I don’t think, some in the audience may not know that the reason Mitch Rapp is so successful is you work hard on the research. You know so many people in the community of special operators, you do so much time in and around them, that you have a very unique perspective on what happened two weeks ago. Let’s just start with the general question. Where were you? What did you think when the killing of bin Laden was announced?



VF: We found out late Sunday night. Not to name drop (laughing), I had just returned from our annual spring fling at Rush Limbaugh’s joint with the Ailes family, and the Michaels, and the Ohlmeyers, and Joel Surnow and Colleen, you know, the creator of 24. And it’s an interesting weekend to say the least, and got the news, and was ecstatic, very happy. As the media began to fall all over themselves, I was horrified by several things. I mean, these are men and women who are, you know, many of them have Masters degrees in journalism from supposedly out finest schools, and they get paid to cover the Pentagon and the CIA. And I’m hearing them run around repeating things like 40 Navy SEALs raided the compound. And right away, I’m saying to myself, that number doesn’t work. I’ve never known the SEALs to work with a 40 man strike force. And then they’re saying Blackhawk helicopters, and I didn’t know about the stealth birds yet, but on missions like this at night, they fly Pave Hawks, which you know, advanced avionics, NAP-of-Earth flying, all that stuff. So they were getting all these little things wrong. And the one thing that I knew they weren’t paying attention to was what led up to this, what had to have taken place on the ground. And in the last couple of weeks, I’ve filled in the blanks on it, and it’s a pretty fascinating story, and one that I, for the most part, had right from the get-go, and it’s that, you know, the CIA, their national clandestine service, they’ve had guys on the ground in Abbottabad since last August.



HH: Yup.



VF: Now I will give President Obama credit. He signed off on this. He said to these guys, the CIA came to him with the information on the couriers. And they said we’ve tracked him to this compound. Here’s what makes this compound interesting. It has no IT, or no phone lines going into it. And it’s the only house in the neighborhood that does not have phone lines or IT lines. So it kind of sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s got these unusually high walls, you know, the whole deal. So what we do, and we do this very well, is the national reconnaissance office moves a satellite in overhead, and we start to monitor the place. And we notice that there’s a guy that takes a walk on most afternoons in this joint, and the national reconnaissance office, nobody’s giving them any credit for this, these guys are so good, they figure out by the shadow how it falls from the Sun at this time of the year, that this guy that is taking these walks every day is over six feet tall. And he takes these walks by himself, paces back and forth. So they’re starting to go all right, this is interesting. So President Obama signs off, sends in the team, along with some guys that the CIA calls SAD, or special activities division, and they’re former Delta Force operators.



HH: Okay.



VF: And they go in riding shotgun. These guys go in with the most advanced electronic surveillance equipment probably on the planet, at least in terms of what we have, which that’s a risky thing. You know, if this safe house goes down, and anybody gets their hands on this stuff, we’ve just, who knows where, what’s going to happen to it. They had microdrones that they did not use out of fear that they would lose one, you know, that it would fall into the compound in the middle of the night, and they’d wake up the next day and find it and blow the whole deal. So they start doing their surveillance. Here’s the most interesting part that I’ve heard so far, and it’s just common police work. One of the biggest breaks in the story came from the local grocer. They get to know the grocer, they start talking to the grocer about the neighborhood and what’s going on, and this and that, and the grocer ends up mentioning that he delivers food to this compound every week for 25 people, and they’re not Pakistanis. They’re all Arabs. And one of the women, in fact, dresses in the Yemeni fashion. And the CIA knows that Osama married a 14 year old Yemeni bride two years ago. So all of this starts to kind of get, it gets pieced together into this intelligence mosaic, where they’re going man, there are too many points here that are starting to line up. I originally was convinced that they had a voice print on him, and it was confirmed to me yesterday that they never got that voice print.



HH: Let me ask you if you’re surprised, Vince. In Memorial Day, in this very spooky foreshadowing, you have three bad guys on the ground, and they’re ID’d by satellite. Are you surprised that, you know, we’re supposed to be able to see the seams on a fastball. They couldn’t get the facial on OBL from the bird?



VF: No, because what I heard was they couldn’t get the angle, where he walked, with these walls, and he wore his headdress, that they couldn’t get the exact facial on him from up that high. And they were smart. You know, they built this thing right. He, the CIA couldn’t get an angle to get a photo into the compound. I mean, they handled this thing really coolly. You know, they knew they had the couriers. So the question is, is he in there? And they just kept monitoring and monitoring, and again, one of the big tip-offs was this girl dressed in Yemeni garb.



HH: Yeah.



VF: How many, she’s 16 now, or whatever, how many Yemeni women are in Abbottabad, Pakistan? It’s not a common thing, with a bunch of other Arabs behind a wall with no IT lines, no phone lines, walls that are built in such a way that nobody can see from blocks away. So they just kept piecing it together. And the other thing that I find pretty interesting, it doesn’t really surprise me, I was told that near the end here, it was DCI Panetta and Secretary of State Clinton who pushed the hardest to not tell Pakistan, which I find fascinating.



HH: I do. In fact, that’s also in Memorial Day, where you just cannot trust the ISI.



VF: No.



HH: You’ve got the Pakistani colonel, and they’ve got different divisions within it. And so they’re the ones that went hard-nosed on that as opposed to Gates. I’m surprised by that, too.



VF: Well, and so the pushback that I got, and it was in a more generic sense, it was that DOD pushed back. Now that doesn’t mean Gates, specifically. That could be individual secretaries, that could be the chairman of the joint chiefs. And if you understand our precarious supply lines in and out of Afghanistan, the DOD has every right to be the ones to be the most concerned if this relationship goes south.



HH: Yup.



VF: We’ve got a lot of military personnel in Pakistan that are logistics people getting stuff off of ships, over land, and into Afghanistan.



HH: When we come back from the break, I’m going to talk about the specifics of the mission that night, what Vince Flynn thought about them as they’ve been revealed to us, and how he might fill in some of the details that are not being filled in, including it wasn’t just the SEALs. I talked with General Boykin last week. A lot of people involved in this operation. Vince Flynn knows that community, we’ll talk about what he knows, what he suspects.



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HH: Time to talk about SEALs, Vince. I had a chance to see the SEAL movie which the studios are falling over each other to get now. I’ve seen the print of it. And so I have a little bit better appreciation of how complex this is. But when I went back and read Memorial Day, you’ve got Air Force special tactics teams, you had Ranger battalions, you had SEALs, you had Delta involved. This operation, the bin Laden kill team, it sounded just like SEALs, and that didn’t sound right to me. What does it sound like to you?



VF: Well, that was my confusion when they were throwing the 40 number out there. But here’s where it does make sense. Well, let me back up a second. This unit, SEAL Team Six, Dev Group, whatever you want to call it, they keep changing the name, it falls under the command of what is called the Joint Special Operations Command. And attached to that are Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, the 1st Ranger battalion, excuse me, the 75th Rangers, and a bunch of other specialized groups – Air Force, Army helicopter pilots, most famously. I knew right away that the guys who were flying these birds were more than likely the guys from SOAR, which is the Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the 160th. And that is where President Obama went last week to congratulate everybody. And these were the pilots who were featured in Black Hawk Down, by the way. These are the guys who wait until it’s a stormy night, and it’s pouring rain, and they say let’s get in the helicopters, and fly 50 feet off the ground.



HH: Yeah.



VF: I mean, they’re just amazing at what they do. So first of all, it was Army helicopter pilots flying those helicopters. The medics, and let me back up, because there’s…let me walk you through what I heard in terms of how this thing unrolled.



HH: Okay.



VF: First of all, the two Pave Hawks, which are the advance avionics, and now they’ve got the stealth technology, they take off, and they’ve got 12 SEALs in the back of each of them. Now this makes complete sense. A 24 man SEAL strike team is a very typical number to assault. And let’s not forget that these guys have always been good, but they’re exceptionally good now, because for the last nine years, they’ve had a lot of practice.



HH: Right.



VF: …in Afghanistan and Iraq. And so these guys go in first. The Chinooks stay at the border and circle, because they obviously, they don’t have the stealth, those helicopters are huge, and they haven’t figured out a way to put any stealth technology on them. Now if you’ve ever talked to an F-117 Stealth pilot?



HH: And I have not.



VF: They’ll tell you…



HH: (laughing) Okay…



VF: Well, they will tell you that that bird, they call it a fighter, but it really isn’t. It’s a bomber. It’s a pig, because when you start to do, when you start to put stealth technology on an airframe, what you do is you lose your precision control. You lose some of your lift, you lose a lot of the sharpness of the aircraft. So when this, we found out that one of the copters, one of the choppers went down, because these guys never want to land if they don’t have to. The rule of thumb is they fast rope out. The little birds, they’ll set them down, because they can get up and down so quick. But in general, they do not want to set these things down. So when I heard that we lost one, my immediate…I had two reaction. The first one was it hit a wire. You know, this is not exactly OSHA-friendly country.



HH: Right, right.



VF: There’s wires all over the place. So my first thought was they hit a wire. And then my second thought was they actually, for some reason, decided to land, and misjudged it, and hit the back wall of the compound. What I confirmed yesterday was what my third theory was, was that when these guys are coming in at 160 miles an hour, 180 miles an hour hot, and they have a maneuver where they flare up, meaning they drop the tail end, and they bring the nose up to brake. And then they go level and the ropes go out, and they fast rope down. Now remember how I said with stealth technology you lose some of that precision of stick?



HH: Yup.



VF: Well, you also lose some lift, because part of what they’re doing with this new stealth technology is they are directing air from the engine through the tail rotor, for maneuverability. So what happened is they stalled. They went in and they did that flare up maneuver, and the engine stalled. And they just, this pilot, who these guys are, they’ve got major cajones, you know, to not panic in a situation like this…



HH: Of course.



VF: …set the thing down in the compound. The tail end hits the wall and snaps off.



HH: Hold that thought. I come back with Vince Flynn. I’m going to ask him next, did he think there was any chance that they were going to bring bin Laden back as a captive on this mission.



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HH: Vince, first question about the mission itself. What do you think the odds were that bin Laden was going to come out of that house trust up like the characters in Memorial Day for subsequent interrogation?



VF: About 1%.



HH: And why is that?



VF: We wanted to avoid a show trial. I mean, you think about, as a novelist, you’re constantly running through these scenarios. And you know, I’ve got to tell you, on night number two, I couldn’t resist the idea that he was, you know, floating on a container ship somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean having his fingernails pulled out, because that, by the way, burying the body at sea was absolutely ingenious. You cannot give this guy a shrine. But you know, we take him, we imprison him, and if Holder, that moron had his way, you know, we’d put him on trial in New York City. Now imagine all the suicide bombings we’d have, and the killings of American tourists to try to do that. This was the best, cleanest way. And I don’t know if you saw the 60 Minutes interview last week, but President Obama said it perfectly when he was asked about people criticizing him for killing him. And he said anybody who doesn’t think that this guy didn’t get what he deserved basically needs to have their head examined.



HH: Now Vince, I wonder if your novelist’s eye, when they picture of the Situation Room was released, and Eric Holder wasn’t in it, if your novelist’s eye noticed that, and if immediately started thinking about Peggy Stealey and all the other DOJ wienies you’ve created over the years?



VF: (laughing) It did. I absolutely did. And why…you know, I find it very interesting that nobody from the Justice Department is in this.



HH: You bet.



VF: I mean…well, here’s another interesting tidbit I learned. So the Chinooks that come in?



HH: Yup.



VF: There is a, apparently, there is a top field surgeon, and two field medics on one of those birds. And I have been told that they were not on the operation to help give medical aid to bin Laden or any of his people. They were on the mission solely to help any of our people who got hit. And the other fascinating deal, which this is pretty cool, the CIA had a six man exploitation team that came in, equipped with scanners. And they went through this place, because you know, the rationale is you’re not going to hide, you’re not just going to leave valuable information sitting on a nightstand, although it appears maybe he did, which just kind of boggles the mind. But five years into this, your security procedures get a little lax.



HH: Yup.



VF: But these guys went in, they scanned every wall, every floorboard, they had the dog in there sniffing for explosives. You know, they rightly…their biggest fear was this whole damn thing was going to blow up.



HH: Yup.



VF: And it was going to kill the whole strike team. So this thing, one of the biggest…and not enough people are saying this, all right, that a lot of people deserve credit, from the President, his national security team, all the way down, and including a lot of men and women who are no longer working for the government or the CIA, and specifically guys like Jose Rodriguez and Rob Richer, and the guys who ran the enhanced measures program, and the rendition program. That is where this stuff all started. If those programs were not in place, if W. hadn’t signed off on those, we would have never found these couriers, and we would have never found bin Laden.



HH: You know, John McCain is out arguing that point, and I’ll play that next hour. But he’s out arguing that point. I don’t think anyone can actually argue that point, Vince Flynn. Do you?



VF: No, here’s my problem, Hugh, and you should look this up sometime, because McCain wrote an op-ed in Newsweek four or five years ago, maybe longer. And he said, and I respect why he is against enhanced measures, okay? Being a POW, he has a unique perspective on it. But he said torture doesn’t work, and the example he gave was they used to ask me who the fellow pilots were in my squadron, and I would give them the starting offensive line for the Green Bay Packers. Listen, that’s not the way the CIA works. These rendition programs, if you talk to the people who ran them, and enhanced measures, they are like good attorneys in a courtroom. They do not ask a question that they don’t already know the answer to. And they’ve got these hooked up, they’re sleep deprived, they’re going through everything, and they, you give them the starting lineup for the Green Bay Packers, and they punch it into their database, and Google says this is the starting lineup for the Green Bay Packers.



HH: Right.



VF: You know, it doesn’t work this way.



HH: Any doubt in your mind, Vince, that we did use information developed from enhanced interrogation techniques to get this?



VF: There’s no…Hugh, I said it on your show years ago. I have been saying this forever, that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, we waterboarded the heck out of him, and you can go back and check your tapes, I’m pretty sure I said it on your show. I know I said it on O’Reilly, I’m talking years ago, that this guy ended up spilling the beans to the point where he literally was up on a white board with a marker diagramming the organizational structure of al Qaeda…



HH: Yeah, you said that here.



VF: …and telling us where their banks were in Germany, where their cells were. It was a font of information.



HH: But now are you surprised, in Memorial Day, one of the things that Rapp does when they grab the guys from Pakistan is they exploit it quickly so that they don’t drain the bank accounts, they don’t move the safe houses. Were you surprised we knew about this so quickly, and didn’t keep the lid on longer?



VF: You mean in the real world situation?



HH: Yeah.



VF: The thing that does absolutely surprise me, and you must give credit to Leon Panetta, the CIA and the national security team, is that nobody leaked this. It is the part of the story that actually surprises me more than, other than Hillary Clinton being the one leading the charge to not tell Pakistan, it’s the part of the story that just blows me away.



HH: But how about not, just waiting two days, Vince? You’re not criticizing the President, and I understand that, but are you surprised that we found out the night of the operation across international television?’



VF: That it was actually him, you mean?



HH: Yeah.



VF: No, because…well, they had everything…everything was pointing to the fact that it was him. Now on 60 Minutes, the President said they were 55% sure. I don’t want to be disrespectful here, but I’m going to have to call B.S. on that. That number was closer to 80. You don’t go into Pakistan…and the other deal was this. 80% sure it was Osama bin Laden. They were 100% sure the couriers were there. They were 100% sure that they would be able to grab computers and hard drives, and reel intel out of this place.



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HH: Thanks to Vince Flynn for spending this hour with me. www.vinceflynn.com, the amazing American novelist. Vince, my last question is this. You have spent a lot of time over the last ten years putting yourself in the mind and in the place of the good guys. But you’ve also had to imagine the bad guys. And there’s a scene in Memorial Day, Al-Yamani is the bad guy there, the bin Laden figure, where he knows people are coming for him. What do you think bin Laden was thinking, and when he heard the sounds of whatever he heard crashing in the walled compound?



VF: Here’s what people forget. We’ll all human beings. If you are fortunate enough to become a father or a mother, and you have been, gone through that period in your life where you’re sleep deprived, and you’re woken up in the middle of the night and you remember just how out of your mind you are, this guy was woken up at 3 in the morning out of a dead sleep. And I don’t think he had any idea, probably for the first minute or two, what was going on. And then he realized holy crap, this is it. And I am surprised that he didn’t grab a gun and go out in a blaze of glory. I’m very surprised that his own bodyguards didn’t shoot him, because you do have to look at the theory, or the possibility that we would have grabbed him and waterboarded him.



HH: Yup.



VF: And so that part does surprise me. But I will say this. You know, you keep hearing this 40 minute operation on the ground deal? Have you ever seen how fast these SEALs move through a house?



HH: Right.



VF: I’m telling you right now, it was, 40 minutes was from the time they crossed the border to the time they shot him in the head.



HH: And last question, Vince, are you amazed at Memorial Day, and how well it matched up with what happened?



VF: Well, you know what’s weird? There was an operation that was cancelled five years ago that was virtually right out of Memorial Day. And I find out later through some people, Stan McChrystal, Petraeus, they’re all big fans of the books, Porter Goss, that they, that Memorial Day inspired them to put together and operation that they were going to do a very similar objective. They thought it was all Zawahiri, they were going to go over the border. I don’t know if W., he wouldn’t go near touching this thing, but I’ve been told Rumsfeld wouldn’t give it the green light.



HH: Interesting.



VF: So it’s, you know, I don’t know.



HH: You know what? If you talk to enough of these guys, and you do enough research, you write great novels. Vince, it’s great to talk to you again. Great news on your recovery, and continue fighting the good fight, my friend.



VF: Thanks, Hugh, always a pleasure, appreciate it.



HH: Talk to you soon. Vince Flynn, America’s favorite writer of these things, America. If you want to read Memorial Day, go and get it. But if you just want the first hundred pages, go to http://www.vinceflynn.com/,  and you can sign up for those, get them downloaded, and you can join the Facebook deal at the same time over at http://www.vinceflynn.com/.  If you haven’t read American Assassin, you can pick that up over there as well. What a conversation.

HUGE E-VERIFY VICTORY IN U.S. SUPREME COURT JUST ANNOUNCED!!!

An urgent post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about E-Verify from the Supreme Court. This follows this post about immigration legislation in Texas.  This follows this post  about Carlos Santana's hate speech against unemployed Americans.  This follows this post about congressional redistricting and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

HUGE E-VERIFY VICTORY



IN U.S. SUPREME COURT


JUST ANNOUNCED!!!



Arizona's Mandatory E-Verify Law Upheld, Opening Way For All States To Pass Their Own



SUPREME COURT REJECTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTS TO PROTECT ILLEGAL WORKERS & THEIR EMPLOYERS



Business Lobbyists Now Under Great Pressure To Support National E-Verify Law This Summer To Have Uniform Rules Countrywide



The case is Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, 09-115.



Of all the open-border groups' court challenges against immigration enforcement across the country, this suit before the U.S. Supreme Court (that was heard last December) was/is by far the most important.



AND WE WON IT 5-3!



Nothing will do more to retard future illegal immigration and accelerate the departure of the current illegal population than taking away the job magnet.



Arizona and more than a dozen other states have already passed various versions of E-Verify law. All of those could have been wiped out when the Supreme Court announced its decision this morning.



But instead, our strategy of mandating E-Verify in as many states as possible to pressure Congress to do it nationwide has been approved by the highest court of the land.



NumbersUSA's AMICUS BRIEF WAS PART OF THIS COURT CASE



You may remember that as soon as the Supreme Court began business last fall NumbersUSA filed an Amicus brief in support of the State of Arizona making sure that the Justices and their clerks were aware of a number of important legal and factual points that we weren't certain were in the main briefs. (You can read a lot of our Amicus language by looking for my blogs on the subject on our website.)



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RULING GIVES HUGE BOOST TO EFFORTS

TO PASS E-VERIFY BILL IN CONGRESS THIS SUMMER



Lobbyists for business groups and illegal-alien advocacy groups have blocked Congress from passing a national mandatory law since 1996.



NumbersUSA and its allies have fought every year to win incremental victories. First, to create the workplace verification system as a pilot program for just a few states. Later, to expand the voluntary system nationwide. Most recently to persuade Pres. Obama to mandate its use for all federal contractors.



If the Supreme Court had knocked us down today, the business lobbies would have looked out over a whole nation without any states requring employers to electronically verify that they weren't hiring illegal foreign workers. And they would have felt little pressure to do anything other than they've always done, which is to throw all their weight in Congress toward protecting employers that prefer to hire illegal aliens over unemployed Americans.



But not now.



With more than a dozen states with different E-Verify laws and different rules for businesses -- and with the Supreme Court opening the way for all other states to adopt their own rules -- the business lobbies will get a lot of pressure from their members to back a uniform national law.



Many businesses that operate in multiple states are already complaining to their lobbyists that they don't like operating under all the different rules and would prefer a national law.



The Supreme Court today added a whole lot more oomph to that pressure on business lobbyists to join us in a national law requiring a system that the businesses already using it praise as one of the most effective and easiest programs of the federal government.



MORE ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING



The key issue in the court case was whether Arizona could take away the business license of an employer who refuses to use E-Verify.



The NumbersUSA Amicus went into great detail in showing that such a state law is precisely what Congress has set up as a state enforcement option over the last 25 years.



The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts who said that Arizona's E-Verify law "falls well within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the states."



Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. (The newest Justice, Elena Kagan, was not involved in this case because she had been part of Pres. Obama's support of the Chamber of Commerce before she was elected to the Court.)



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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

25 Years & Still No Oprah Apology for “Jews Sacrifice Their Kids” Show

An interesting post from www.debbieschlussel.com anlayzing Oprah Winfrey's TV show. For more posts like this click here!

25 Years & Still No Oprah Apology for “Jews Sacrifice Their Kids” Show

By Debbie Schlussel

She is surrounded by Jewish producers and advisers who made her billions. And she is gushed over by vapid Jewish liberals who worship her every word. But as Oprah winds down her wretched daytime talk show, this week, you won’t hear the apology she owes the Jewish people. Twenty-five years, and still no apology from Oprah for helping the Klan, Muslims, and others spread the blood libel that Jews sacrifice their children. Yup, Oprah did a show on exactly this topic in 1989 and never apologized and clearly never will as her show ends, thankfully, on Wednesday. From the New York Times archive:

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HOprah Watch: Oprah Wants You to Know Jews Sacrifice Their First Born


Hundreds of television viewers and the leaders of several Jewish and civil-liberties organizations have protested allegations on a popular talk show this week that some Jews practice ritual killing of children.
The allegations were made by a guest using the pseudonym Rachel on ”The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the fifth most widely viewed syndicated talk show in the country.
During the program, broadcast Monday, Ms. Winfrey introduced the guest as someone who was undergoing long-term psychiatric treatment for multiple personality disorder. The woman told Ms. Winfrey that she had witnessed the ritual sacrifice of Jewish children and had been a victim of ritualistic abuse. The guest also said of such practices: ”There’s other Jewish families across the country. It’s not just my family.”. . .
The woman’s comments provoked hundreds of angry phone calls and letters to Jewish and civil liberties groups, spokesmen for the groups said in interviews yesterday. They said viewers also contended that Ms. Winfrey did not challenge the woman’s statements sufficiently.

Um, she didn’t challenge the statements at all. Here’s a portion of the transcript, which appears on neo-Nazi websites all over the Net, and which I wrote about previously on this site:

Oprah: “I want to make it clear that this is one Jewish person, so don’t go around now, saying to people, you know, ‘Those Jewish people, they’re worshipping . . . .’ This is the first time I heard of any Jewish people sacrificing babies, but anyway – so you witnessed the sacrifice?”

Hey, who needs Goebbels, when you have Oprah? Video of the blood libel show she did against Jews is all over YouTube, as neo-Nazis, Muslims, and sundry other Jew-haters have posted it everywhere:



Oprah, always the coward, refused to take press inquiries about this and instead sent her minstrel Jew, Jeffrey Jacobs, the COO of her Harpo Productions, Inc., to make excuses for her. Jacobs said it was okay to air the segment because the woman was “was identified at the top of the show as being mentally disturbed.” Oh, I guess that makes it okay. I feel so much better, don’t you? “Rachel,” the woman in the video made the whole thing up. Her real name is Vicky Polin, and she’s a well-known mental patient who says all kinds of libelous BS against various Jewish people and has for years. So, hey, let’s put her on Oprah and present it as fact.

Can you imagine if a daytime host did such a show about Black people or Muslims–the two preferred minorities of the Oprah show? But, hey, Oprah is Black, so all is forgiven. No matter what she does she gets away with it.

As the wretched Oprah show finally goes away, the hyperbole of drool is really getting ridiculous. Yesterday’s Detroit Free Press did a cover story in which airheaded women said Oprah gave them “a message from G-d.” These idiotettes have only one thing in common with Oprah: they both think she’s G-d, as Oprah once described herself as a “religion” and has repeatedly stated that she was “destined for greatness.” USA Today quoted me about these fools who see the egomaniacal Oprah as some sort of high priestess.

And it’s true: Oprah is “god” . . . if your religion is transsexuals are great; men are all evil porn addicts, cheaters, child molesters, and absentee parents; marriage is bad; Islam is awesome!; Israel sucks; stripping is a respectable profession; and “listen to me tell you to downsize and stop spending while I tell you to buy the $500 cashmere Q-Tips in ‘Oprah’s Favorite Things.’”

Oh, and Jew-hatred blood libels. Oprah, the ghosts of Hitler and Osama Bin Laden thank you from the bottoms of their hearts.

DumbAssity: Obama & Hillary Expand Iranian Student Visas in US

A very interesting post from  www.debbieschlussel.com about increased Iranian visas being given. This follows this post about a Muslim ice cream man in Philadelphia.  This follows this post  about Miss USA 2010 and this article about the recent news about the former ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence and prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran   and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

DumbAssity: Obama & Hillary Expand Iranian Student Visas in US


By Debbie Schlussel



I guess this is more Barack Hussein Obama repentance to the Muslim world for killing Osama Bin Laden. Or it’s a ridiculous sop to Iran to get them not to try the two anti-Israel, pan-Islamic American “hikers” as spies. Either way and regardless of the reason, it’s simply absurd to tell Iran that they should send a lot more of their extremist America-haters to our shores to disappear in our midst and help their fellow Hezbollah supporters already on our shores and give them more time in which to do it. That’s the only result here. We already have, as I’ve repeatedly noted, several hundred thousand visa violators, including student visa violators. We don’t need more of them even if we find the 500,000 visa violators we already have on our shores.











Ahmadinejad Says “Alhamdillullah” [Praise allah] to New Obama Hillary Iran Student Visa Program



The Obama administration is making Iranian students eligible to enter the U.S. for up to two years in an effort to improve relations between Americans and Iranians.







Previously, Iranian students and individuals enrolled in academic or professional exchange programs could only obtain a single-entry visa good for up to three months. Now they can enter and leave the U.S. multiple times and stay for up to two years.



Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the announcement Friday in YouTube messages in English and Farsi.



Clinton says the U.S. wants to show young Iranians what is great about America while helping them bring change to their own country.



Oh, and by the way, contrary to Hillary Clinton’s BS contention, going to college here doesn’t make them like us more. Just ask Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who went to grad school here, or the late Sayyid Qutb, Osama Bin Laden’s spiritual guru who is considered the father of Al-Qaeda and is one of THE most influential Islamic scholars.



This won’t make Iranian students and protesters like us or make Iran any different. And the government of Iran will decide who will get to come here.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs are laughing–yet again–at the stupid Americans, the dumbass dhimmis of their grand jihadist plans.

URGENT - SANCTUARY CITY BILL

An urgent post from http://www.ircot.com/ about immigration legislation in Texas. This follows this previous post  it. This follows this post  about Carlos Santana's hate speech against unemployed Americans.  This follows this post about congressional redistricting and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

URGENT - SANCTUARY CITY BILL

IRCOT ACTION ALERT













CALLS NEED TO BE MADE TO GOV., LT. GOV. & ENTIRE SENATE











WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY ARE CRITICAL!







HB 12 could be scheduled for Senate floor action. A Senate committee restored its House-passed anti-sanctuary city language;

HB 2734 was returned to the House for a vote on concurrence. Although the bill concerns pardons/paroles of illegal aliens, the Senate added language from SB 9 requiring participation in the Secure Communities program; and

SB 9, the mandatory Secure Communities bill, could be scheduled for House floor action. A House committee added language that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal aliens and gives employers that use E-Verify an affirmative defense against sanctions.



We need to hedge our bets in order to get some enforcement legislation passed. That means it will be necessary to push a limited agenda - mandatory E-Verify and anti-sanctuary legislation -- in all three bills. Please follow the instructions below for contacting Gov. Perry, House and Senate leaders, and your Rep. and Senator.







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Please call and Email House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (leader of the Texas Senate) with the message:







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